In what ways does your media product challenges
- 1. In what ways does your media product challenges forms and conventions of a real magazine product?
- 2. similar: • The basic layout of the magazine is based on real magazine products. The front cover has the main image as the background, with the articles around the side. the barecode with the date and price line wrote small next to it. the main article and pull quote are large and it has a banner and a very large masthead. This is a very traditional features of a front cover so it will look like a real magazine product. It has a quote underneath the masthead that is a little phrase that is related to the magazine in general.
- 3. similar: • The content page is set out in straight lines so everything is easy to read, with the main article is the largest picture, has an exclusive page and offers something for the audience to win. This is very traditional layout of the page. even a masthead is next to the title, there are no empty spaces as everything is full with writing and images.
- 4. similar: • The double page spread again is very traditional the image takes up 50% of the double page spread everything is wrote in paragraphs and in columns also like a few other magazines it has questions and answers as well. The title is large and also has quotes that have been highlighted to stand out in the article. there are also page numbers in the corner of the pages. The house style has been kept to some extent through out the entire magazine product.
- 5. different: • There aren't actually that many difference in my design of my magazine compared to the real products that have been produced I suppose on my front cover my puff as the one on my front cover isn't offering anything like an exclusive page or something free its just linking into the front cover and the genre of my magazine. Also where its placed, my front cover is very full so Ive placed it over the main picture just a little off the centre unlike what you would find on a magazine where it would normally be in the corner of the page out of the way and not really on the picture. This could be a bad thing for my magazine because its on the main image and could distract you from the main article but it could be good as the little quote underneath the masthead shows the audience what this magazine is all about. also the banner it doesn't contain any articles but it contains contact details and the edition of the magazine with stars in between each section which isn't usually used, so its quite unique.
- 6. different: • On the content page it is very similar to real magazine products apart from it isn't usual to have the same pull quote and the same article on the main image as normally they would put something different on to the pictures to advertise it even more but I thought it would be better it just change the picture so its something new and fresh but keep the same pull quote and article so the audience know its the same article its like double advisement for the same page. on the actual articles there are visible lines to section off each section I wanted these in so its much easier to know what is in each section exactly also I think it looks neat and more tidy way of putting it.
- 7. different: • The double page spread only shows a few differences such as the main image I have placed smaller images of the same model in the same grey scale on it I have done this to link in with a part of the article about the girl having a modelling carer. Also I like the affect that it gives as the pictures have been blurred onto the main image, normally they would have a few image or maybe one image but I haven't seen it done the way I have done it before. The page numbers are large and with the word 'page' next to the number normally the page number would be small and not significant to the page but I wanted to make mine noticeable because it looks stylish.